AI search optimization services get your brand recommended when buyers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity instead of Google. Here is what to expect from a provider, and what to pay for.
Four deliverables define a real program: a multi-assistant baseline of who gets named on your buyers' prompts, a prioritized gap list ranked by revenue, shipped fixes, content, schema, and corroboration in cited sources, and monthly re-measurement. A PDF audit with no execution attached is a diagnosis without treatment.
Self-serve trackers, audit-plus-roadmap consultancies, and done-for-you platforms. Pricing runs from double digits for dashboards to five figures for enterprise programs. Aethon's done-for-you plans start at $199 per month and scale with shipped work.
Ask to see the prompt panel they would run for you: if it reads like keyword research rather than real buyer conversations, keep looking. Ask which of the four assistants they cover and how many runs per prompt. Ask who ships the fixes. Vendors with good answers volunteer them.
Aethon pairs continuous four-assistant tracking with an Action Engine that ships fixes through your approval and attribution that reports in pipeline. Book a call and we baseline your category live on the call.
Programs that measure and improve how AI assistants recommend your brand: baseline measurement, gap prioritization, shipped content and corroboration, and re-measurement.
Dashboards start under $100 monthly; done-for-you programs range from a few hundred monthly upward. Aethon starts at $199 per month.
No, they complement it. SEO defends your Google presence; AI search optimization wins the assistant answers where a growing share of buying decisions form.